The Habsburg Way

After World War I culled Europe’s old empires, President Woodrow Wilson insisted on exporting statehood as America’s gift to Europe’s smaller peoples. Today, Americans in search of their own fraying nationhood look to small states for models of survival and even move to them. In May, when the Conservative Political Action Conference returned for a second meeting in Budapest, Hungary, it was greeted by a recently planted American colony, led by Rod Dreher. America’s New Right is nostalgic for the Old World.